BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Find Local//findlocal.community//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1b05091e-c415-4f73-a732-7a5ee68e10fa@findlocal.community DTSTAMP:20261015T152256Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261109T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261109T210000 SUMMARY:Deer Tick DESCRIPTION:DEER TICK Indie Alt-Country Americana Opener: DUG 7 PM 8 PM * See venue bag policy* 18+ Valid ID required for entry into venue Under 1 8 permitted with parent (Accepted forms of ID: State Issued ID or Driver 's License\, Military ID\, Passport.) DEER TICK: The ninth studio album from Deer Tick\, Coin-O-Matic casts a bright light on a little-known fac et of the American mythos: the hidden histories of the band’s home state of Rhode Island\, where the everyday dramas of working-class families l ong collided with the menace of the mafia underworld. As they tapped int o their infinite fascination with that strange duality\, singer/guitaris t John McCauley\, guitarist/singer Ian O’Neil\, drummer/singer Dennis Ry an\, and bassist Christopher Ryan assembled a batch of songs exploring d esperation\, grief\, redemption\, and resilience with both cinematic det ail and lived-in emotionality. A sharp new turn from one of indie-rock’s most enduringly vital forces\, Coin-O-Matic arrives as a complicated lo ve letter to a way of life slowly slipping from the collective memory. T he follow-up to Emotional Contracts (hailed by Uncut as one of 2023’s be st albums)\, Coin-O-Matic takes its title from a cigarette-vending-machi ne company that served as the headquarters of Raymond Patriarca—a legend ary mobster who ran one of the most ruthless crime families in U.S. hist ory. “If you grew up in Rhode Island years ago\, you’d see all these mob sters on the news and then run into them at a restaurant on Federal Hill \,” says McCauley\, referring to Providence’s version of Little Italy. “ They were criminals but also very colorful characters\, and I wanted the album to partly reflect a certain nostalgia for that kind of seediness. ” Recorded at Deer Tick’s home studio\, Coin-O-Matic marks their first s elf-produced album in their two-decade-plus lifespan\, during which they ’ve enlisted A-list producers like Dave Fridmann (a Grammy-winner known for his work with The Flaming Lips and Spoon). “At first it was daunting not to have that extra ear in the studio\, but it felt like the right t ime to peel off the Band-Aid and fully trust ourselves\,” says O’Neil. “ Since we were working in our own space and there weren’t any limitations on time\, we had the freedom to take these four-guys-in-a-room rock son gs and experiment with different ways of decorating them.” Featuring gue st musicians like Los Lobos’ Steve Berlin (on baritone saxophone) and fo rmer Deer Tick member Rob Crowell (on organ)\, Coin-O-Matic frequently b rings a live-wire immediacy to their finespun storytelling. “We’ve never been so comfortable making a record\, and I think you can feel that in the performances\,” says Dennis\, who engineered the LP. “We weren’t beh olden to anyone else’s idea of what Deer Tick sounds like\, and because of that this album feels like an unfettered capturing of who we are as a band.” Centered on a series of vignettes that merge personal memory and extravagantly nuanced fiction\, Coin-O-Matic opens on “Dog Years”—a qui etly devastating track that begins in folky intimacy before building to a sorrowful catharsis. In dreaming up the song’s storyline\, McCauley lo oked back on an assisted-living facility near his childhood home\, where his own grandfather spent the final years of his life. “The main charac ter of ‘Dog Years’ is based on the guys I used to watch playing chess ou tside that building or hanging out at the bus stop\, smoking cigarettes and shooting the shit\,” says McCauley. “I imagined an older gentleman l osing his partner and that loss accelerating his aging—almost like he wa s doing seven years of damage with every passing year.” Deeply informed by the singular experience of growing up Irish-Catholic\, Coin-O-Matic n ext jolts into the ramshackle jangle-pop of “Mary Singletary” and its te nder but irreverent tale of interfaith teenage lust. “Most of the storie s on the album are from my parents’ generation and the generation before that\, when the idea of a Catholic and a Protestant getting together wa s very scandalous\,” says McCauley. “With that song in particular\, I li ked the idea of writing about Catholic guilt and pre-marital sex and add ing in a little bit of Looney Tunes-style violence—sometimes as a young Catholic boy\, I did imagine a vengeful God cutting me down in a cartoon ish kind of way.” Graced with all the grit and warmth of a classic heart land-rock anthem\, “ACI” channels a raw desolation and its first-person portrait of a man imprisoned at the Adult Correctional Institutions outs ide Providence. “When we were working on the album\, I used to drive pas t the ACI a couple times a week and think of all the stories I’ve heard about the mobsters who ended up there\,” says McCauley. “That song start ed with us throwing ideas around in soundcheck\, and over time I realize d it was meant to be a prison song about the getaway driver of a robbery gone wrong.” Later\, on “Exit Door\,” Coin-O-Matic inhabits a gut-punch ing melancholy as Deer Tick depict an ex-con’s return to a world he bare ly recognizes. “I pictured someone who’s maybe in his 70s\, and he’s get ting out of prison and all his favorite restaurants are gone\, everythin g’s completely different now\,” says McCauley. “On one level it’s a cele bratory moment of getting your freedom back\, but I imagine it’s also re ally unsettling and confusing for a lot of people.” Lending a more intim ate layer to Coin-O-Matic’s underlying theme of impermanence\, “Everythi ng Born” finds O’Neil taking the lead and delivering a bittersweet medit ation on the inextricable nature of love and grief. “I started that song pretty soon after my son was born\, and I was thinking about how anythi ng that comes into existence will eventually be lost and therefore mourn ed\,” says O’Neil\, who now has a seven-year-old son and five-year-old d aughter. “It’s tough to view the world through that lens\, but I wanted to write a song for my children that also speaks to that feeling of prec ariousness.” Another look at the delicate arc of life and love\, “Candy Cigarettes” closes out Coin-O-Matic with a gorgeously devastating love s ong partly inspired by a local monument to those who died in the 1981 hu nger strike (a protest of British policy against Irish political prisone rs). “It’s a song about childhood sweethearts\, one of whom comes from N orthern Ireland and maybe has a family connection to one of the hunger s trikers\,” McCauley explains. “There’s some allusions to recent Irish hi story but in a very subtle way—mostly I wanted to write a pro-immigrant song\, and a song about a love that lasts an entire lifetime.” In its so ulful contemplation of recklessness and consequence\, longing and devoti on\, Coin-O-Matic ultimately joins the canon of rock albums whose geogra phically rooted storytelling reveals deeper truths about the human exper ience. “I think there’s something universal in stories of regret and los s and poor decisions\, even if they’re told through the lens of all the odd characters in this little state of ours\,” O’Neil points out. “One o f the reasons I wanted us to make this album is that I think Rhode Islan d deserves to be a contender for a place that people sing about\,” McCau ley adds. “Sonically there’s nothing country about it\, but to me it alm ost feels like a country record set in an urban environment—there’s defi nitely some outlaws in there. I hope that people see themselves in it\, and that they understand a little more about the place that we come from .”\n\nTickets: https://www.ticketmaster.com/deer-tick-charlotte-north-ca rolina-11-09-2026/event/2D00646624DA4EAA\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/ event/1b05091e-c415-4f73-a732-7a5ee68e10fa LOCATION:Neighborhood Theatre\, Charlotte\, NC URL:https://findlocal.community/event/1b05091e-c415-4f73-a732-7a5ee68e10f a STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR